Agencies

- Puketi Forest Trust

- Reconnecting Northland

Tui

Tui has an amazing variety of songs and can mimick the sound of lsmost anything. Known to have been kept as a pet and taught to recite speeches. The Tui has the first call in the morning, the last in the evening and sometimes just keeps on going under a bright moon. It is an important pollinator throughout and often dominates the ngahere chorus. These attributes signify Tui as representing the networks of whanau- hapu cooperatives withint he ngahere and taiao.